Word: mutton
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cost of living would be enhanced by a rise in the value of mutton.- Bulletin N. A, W. M., Vol. XVIII...
...regular board must have been lowered in the last two years, and that thereby men have been driven to the order list. The candid opinion of boarders who can remember '82-3, will, however, refute this supposition. The board has been continually improved during the last two years. Mutton stew and beef stew are both nightmares of the past. Substantial dinners and wholesome lunches are assured facts. No one can for a moment claim that poor board has been the cause for this increasing tendency to order extras. The low price has been one cause for this fact. Everyone will...
...twelve hours they had eaten nothing, and would come back faint and half famished, and with that all-gone feeling that work under such conditions brings, and which would frequently say by them all day. Then their bill of fare would contain little else than underdone beef or mutton, stale bread, a very stingy allowance of potatoes, and none at all of any other vegetables; sometimes tea, never any other drink but water, two for dinner, and one for supper, and not even this much, if they could possibly do without it, and with nothing at all between meals...
...Sargent's recent lecture on "What shall we eat to get strong?" he said in the course of his remarks : It has been customary to train athletes on lean beef and mutton, but he thought this a mistake, as tissue-making food should be used in combination with these, and the diet should be so changed as to meet the requirements of the organism of the person using it, for to establish one diet for all persons was ridiculous. Beef alone is not superior to meal, beans or other farmaceous food, and the size of the muscles...
...consumed at Memorial : 110 loaves of bread, 1200 rolls, 2 barrels of flour, 720 to 850 qts. of milk, 90 pounds of butter 130 pounds of sugar, 50 pounds of oatmeal, 35 pounds of cracked wheat, 1,000 pounds of beef (when used twice a day), 500 pounds of mutton, and 640 pounds of poultry...